Newsnight, 6th May 2025

“Labour have got a working class problem. It’s not ‘my father’s a toolmaker and I went to a comp’, it’s understanding what ordinary people in this country were doing when they voted Reform.” Claire joined Praful Nargund, Director of the Good Growth Foundation, Nicholas Watt, Newsnight’s political editor, and Victoria Derbyshire to discuss the summit … Read more

Labour’s response to grooming gangs misses the point – why would councils want to expose their own failings?

Claire writes in The House magazine… “…I realised that the government doesn’t understand what makes this an open sore in many communities when Ms Phillips boasted of the numbers arrested by the grooming gangs’ taskforce. Yes, seeing the abusers brought to justice is important. But a key grievance is that local state agencies have been … Read more

The insanity of the war on vapes

Claire was a returning guest on Spiked’s Last Orders podcast, joining Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater to discuss the latest on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, the anti-terror law that shut down a flower show, and the scourge of the anti-smoking playbook.